Meaning of link | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
2. A diminutive of the male given name Lincoln
3. A torch, used to light dark streets.
   obsolete
4. A diminutive of the male given name Lincoln.
   rare
5. A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas
6. One element of a chain or other connected series.
7. A surname
8. A surname.
9. One element of a chain or other connected series
10. Abbreviation of hyperlink.
    abbreviation, alt-of
11. An unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia, United States
12. Abbreviation of hyperlink
13. The connection between buses or systems.
14. A hamlet in Burrington parish, North Somerset, Somerset, England
15. The connection between buses or systems
16. A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
17. A space comprising one or more disjoint knots
18. A thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
19. An individual person or element in a system
    figuratively
20. Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
21. A sausage that is not a patty.
22. Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
23. Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
24. The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.
25. A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
26. The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
    in-plural
27. An introductory cue.

Equivalents

Examples

“The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.”

“The link of brotherhood, by which / One common Maker bound me to the kind.”

“And so by double lynkes enchaynde themselues in louers life”

“The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.”

“The weakest link.”

“The link on the page points to the sports scores.”

“A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.”

“They used formerly to live in caves or huts dug into the side of a bank or "link," and lined with heath or straw.”

“But know that God is the strongest link.”

“The fuse is the weakest link in the system. As such, the fuse is also the most valuable link in the system.”

““[…] This is so that nobody can change the way every link must talk about the formula that I taught to make a real Chain of Universal Love and not a Chain of Love of a group or sect.””

“a link of horsehair”

“'Dame Foljambe,' said the old man, 'the march of thy tale is like the course of the Wye, seventeen miles of links and windings down a fair valley five miles long. […]'”

“Too much talk on a music-based station can cause listeners who tune in for the music to go elsewhere. […] 'Some people will say “your link has to be 45 seconds long” but I don't do that,' explains the programme controller of Trent FM, Dick Stone.”

“Thou hast saved me a thousand marks in links and torches”

“You were coming out of the Italian Opera, ma’am, in white satin and jewels, a blaze of splendour, when I hadn’t a penny to buy a link to light you.’”

“Give me a loan of the link, Dick.”

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